Software Engineer, Cloud Computer

Openai
San Francisco, CA
HybridCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Aimed at mid-to-senior level infrastructure engineers who can build scalable systems and collaborate across research and product teams.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with experience in large-scale infrastructure and a strong grasp of distributed systems and cloud platforms
    — “Experience leading large-scale backend, platform, or infrastructure projects from ambiguous problem statements to production systems.”
  • Individuals who can bridge the gap between backend development and product experiences
    — “This role combines infrastructure depth with close attention to the user experience.”
  • Engineers with a background in browser automation or remote computing environments
    — “Experience with browser automation, remote computing environments, or infrastructure for AI agents would be especially relevant.”

Things to consider

  • The role requires handling sensitive data and maintaining strict security protocols
    — “Develop authentication, credential management, and network access controls that protect user data”
  • Candidates must be prepared for a high-paced environment with operational excellence as a priority
    — “Comfort with a fast-moving pace while caring for security and operational excellence.”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience with container orchestration and session management in your resume and interviews
    — “Develop services for provisioning environments, managing sessions, and coordinating their lifecycle.”
  • Emphasize your ability to design systems from initial concept to deployment and scale
    — “Own systems from initial design through deployment and scale.”
  • Demonstrate your understanding of Linux, networking, and browser execution in troubleshooting scenarios
    — “Diagnose issues across Linux, containers, networking, and browser execution.”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • building and scaling cloud computer infrastructure
  • improving reliability and performance
Typical background
backend engineering experience

Skills & requirements

Required

Large-scale Backend, Platform, Or Infrastructure ProjectsDistributed SystemsCloud Platforms

Preferred

Browser AutomationRemote Computing Environments

Stack & domain

Backend LanguagesDistributed SystemsCloud PlatformsProduction ReliabilityBrowser AutomationRemote Computing EnvironmentsInfrastructure For AI AgentsProduct-orientedAttention To User ExperienceCollaboration With Research And Engineering TeamsCloud ComputingAI AgentsBrowser Use

About the role

Original posting from Openai via Ashby

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Browser Use team builds the technology that enables agents to interact with browsers across our products. Our work spans infrastructure, tooling, and user experiences, both on users’ devices and in the cloud. We partner with research to improve our models’ browser-use capabilities and with web standards bodies to shape how agents interact with the web. Our products include ChatGPT for Chrome, the ChatGPT in-app browser, and the cloud computer used in dots and ChatGPT Work.

We see the browser as a universal connector. If we can enable our models to use it effectively, they can do anything. Come help us build the future of browsing!

ABOUT THE ROLE

We’re looking for a product-oriented engineer to build and scale our cloud computer infrastructure. Our goal is to give every one of our users access to an agent with their own computer in the cloud. Build novel solutions to problems like authentication, user takeover, and enterprise network access. You’ll help own the systems that provision, run, and manage the environments our agents use, making them reliable, responsive, and efficient as demand grows.

This role combines infrastructure depth with close attention to the user experience. You’ll partner with research and engineering teams to bring new computer-use capabilities into production, working across container orchestration, backend services, and product experiences.

IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL

  • Build and scale infrastructure for running agent-controlled browsers and computers in the cloud.
  • Develop services for provisioning environments, managing sessions, and coordinating their lifecycle.
  • Improve reliability, performance, resource utilization, and observability across the fleet.
  • Diagnose issues across Linux, containers, networking, and browser execution.
  • Build APIs and tooling that make cloud computers easy for research and product teams to use.
  • Work closely with research to understand emerging requirements and improve how computer use works.
  • Develop authentication, credential management, and network access controls that protect user data and support interactions with websites and services.

YOUR BACKGROUND MIGHT LOOK SOMETHING LIKE

  • Experience leading large-scale backend, platform, or infrastructure projects from ambiguous problem statements to production systems.
  • Proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, or similar, and the ability to move across service, platform, and product boundaries.
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud platforms, and production reliability.
  • Own systems from initial design through deployment and scale.
  • Comfort with a fast-moving pace while caring for security and operational excellence.

Experience with browser automation, remote computing environments, or infrastructure for AI agents would be especially relevant.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. 

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement https://cdn.openai.com/policies/eeo-policy-statement.pdf.

Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

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At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

Source: Openai careers (Ashby)

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